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enStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Rock Lost and Found, Part Twohttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-rock-lost-and-found-part-two
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p>(Part One-of-Two rests within this Rhino website also. Poke around to find tunes 1 to 13 nearby.</p>
<p>(But it’s time now for …)</p>
<p><center><h4><strong>14. The Thirteenth Floor Elevators: “You’re Gonna Miss Me”</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>Texas. 1966. A group that screams and babbles arises now, and it becomes the parents of the “Texas punk” record.</p>
<p>It all began way back in the November before 1966, when leader Roky Erickson’s first group, The Spades, recorded for the Zero label. The song: “You’re Gonna Miss Me.”</p>
<p>In the months following, that cut moved from Zero over to label after label, searching out an audience. </p>
<p>Back then Erickson was 17 years old, if that. He and a “electric jug” player, Tommy Hall, put together their band. They named it for those non-existent elevator floors in high-rises. The higher the better, they figured. And as a number in the alphabet, 13 stood for “M.” And “M” stood for marijuana, which elevated this band’s lives.</p>
<p>Roky is usually credited with inventing the term “psychedelic rock.”</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div></div></div>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 16:52:06 +0000rhino2836 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Rock Lost and Found, Part Onehttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-rock-lost-and-found-part-one
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p>Decades and decades ago, to find a record, you’d go buy it in a record store (probably).</p>
<p>Fifty years later, record stores are fewer.</p>
<p>So that physical record (a 45, a 33, rarely a 78, iffy a tape) with its cover, label, and “liner” notes, that feels like it’s all over. Internet downloads don’t contain liner notes and liner photos or covers or labels.</p>
<p>It’s like a repeat of what happened to records back farther, back in the 1930s, when a new medium – radio – came in. People found no reason to buy records when they could hear them for free. And with that went discs and sleeves.</p>
<p>Enough about historic declines for now... How about a fix for today?</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div></div></div>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:48:41 +0000rhino2831 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Christmas Offhttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-christmas-off
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p>In this heartfelt saga, we’re first heading back half a century at WBR. Back to years when employees got a full, ten days off each Christmas season.</p>
<p>Back to ...</p>
<p><center><h4><strong>The Late 1950s</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>Since Jack Warner did not start WB Records until 1958, we have only two years that fit this decade. But those two years were treats.</p>
<p>The normal work days between Christmas and New Year’s – nine days in all – got designated “<u>vacation</u> days” for us all. That meant “nine days off, and paid, too.”</p>
<p>Those nine days off were the heart of our Christmas then. No big Christmas parties. Nobody dressed like Santa. Warner Records just couldn’t afford that stuff. Back then, Warner Records was losing money, and Jack Warner, he never rode in a sleigh. We were shaky.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/christmas" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Christmas</a></div></div></div>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:06:19 +0000rhino2681 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: These B-52s Hardly Dropped Bombshttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-these-b-52s-hardly-dropped-bombs
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p>In the late 1960s, a Beehive was a woman’s latest fashion hairstyle: long hair piled up in a cone, something like a traditional hive created by bees. Pile it up, and spray it with Aqua Net. The longer her hair the better her hive.</p>
<p>To end any confusion, what’s needed for clarity is to distinguish those B-52s from the America’s bomber airplanes. So look here:</p>
<p><center><h4><strong>These B-52s Gave Us “Party Time”</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>For new wave group B-52s, both girls (Cindy Wilson the blonde; and Kate Pierson the red hot pile) became the group’s style-to-remember. Their early record label, Island Records, even put out side releases on a sub-label it named “Boo-Fant” Records, a parody of “bouffant.”</p>
<p>The Island label’s Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders also caught the craze, and portrayed a bee-hived waitress in that group’s video, “Brass in Pocket.”</p>
<p>There also were boys and men in the group: older brother guitarist Ricky Wilson; vocalist and cowbell-player Fred Schneider; and Keith Strickland, percussion, too.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div></div></div>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:25:59 +0000rhino2626 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Blood Sugar Sex Magikhttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-blood-sugar-sex-magik
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sometimes in the Raw</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>The Chili Peppers were medium Hot back in 1990. Like “Pink Hot.” They’d been on EMI Records but that deal was over. So they put themselves out on the industry’s “Availables” menu, and record labels bid with gusto. Warner Bros. Records bid high, but were outbid by Sony/Epic, Warners’ biggest rival. At Warner, that loss made us feel a bit less Hot.</p>
<p>Warner’s head Mo Ostin phoned one of the Peppers, their singer-songwriter Anthony Kiedis, to congratulate the Peppers on their successful deal with Sony.</p>
<p>Kiedis was impressed by the call he got from the losing label’s Ostin. He told the Peppers about it, how Ostin, “the coolest, most real person we had met during all these negotiations had just personally called to encourage me to make a great record for a rival company. That was the kind of guy I’d want to be working for.”</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div></div></div>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:07:37 +0000rhino2551 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: How Depeche Mode Changed Your Lifehttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-how-depeche-mode-changed-your-life
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>Or at Least Your Ears.</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>Before the 1980s, your ears heard music mellow. Brass bands? Yep, mellow. Rock, mellow too.</p>
<p>What changed? The instruments. They no longer needed to be made of brass, or string, or fine wood. Actually, they no longer needed to be made of anything but electronics. Electronics that their players could make sound like anything.</p>
<p>Back to England, 1981, a wee group named itself Depeche Mode, because that, translated from French, means “Fashion Update.”</p>
<p>And this group (usually a quartet) from the town of Basildon, Essex, England, was, unlike its hometown, into updating pop. New ways for pop to sound.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div></div></div>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:24:06 +0000rhino2516 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Judy Collinshttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-judy-collins
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p>Finding the song has been her magic.</p>
<p>She has found the memorable songs: from those expressing deep faith (“Amazing Grace”) to final hope (“Send in the Clowns”). We should learn from her, learn more than how to sing a hit, but how to embrace a hit.</p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1961 - 1966</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>Judy Collins had already found her record label: Elektra Records had signed her up when she was 22, living in Greenwich Village, playing its clubs whenever they’d give her and her guitar the nod.</p>
<p>(She remained with that same label, Elektra, for 35 years, which must be some kind of world record in fidelity.)</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div></div></div>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:54:07 +0000rhino2456 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Gordon Lightfoothttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-gordon-lightfoot
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1970-1978</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>Coming to Warner/Reprise from his first label, United Artists, Canadian Gordon Lightfoot had already become a singing heavyweight, having experienced a decade of singing his songs on the road. He had become one of Canada’s mighty song writers, like Joni Mitchell, Buffy St. Marie, and Leonard Cohen.</p>
<p>He’d been managed since 1964 by Al Grossman out of New York (who also managed Peter, Paul & Mary; Bob Dylan; Ian & Sylvia; that gang).</p>
<p>With strong management and Gordon’s major song writing talent, in the 1960s, Gordon-the-artist grew larger. He reached Hollywood/Burbank’s interest after doing nine concerts with Peter, Paul & Mary (the Hollywood Bowl, the Troubadour in 1968). In 1969, he signed with Reprise.</p>
<p>The year he started singing Burbank-style, his sales took off like a red hot beaver. This was the age of the “singer-songwriter,” and that co-occupation worked well for Lightfoot for his long and productive life.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div></div></div>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:08:37 +0000rhino2341 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Hot Rodhttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-hot-rod
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1976</strong></h4></center></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>Stewart Crosses the Atlantic</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>In 1975, England’s rock stars left home and moved in to citizenship-homes anywhere but in England. Their beloved country had raised its income tax on its citizens’ incomes, a tax that went (for major earners) up to 83%. So out from England scooted The Rolling Stones, Cat Stevens, members of Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Bad Company, Marc Bolan, Jethro Tull, Tom Jones, and our subject here: the red hot Rod Stewart.</p>
<p>Rod moved to Los Angeles in 1975, and while here signed to record for Warner Bros. Records. His first Warner album’s title indicated his recent back-story: the ocean-hopping Stewart released a Warner LP called <em>Atlantic Crossing</em>.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div></div></div>Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:59:59 +0000rhino2336 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Dire Straitshttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-dire-straits
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1985</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>A&R originally stood for men whose job was to combine Artists who sang with Repertoire – the songs they’d sing. It was, to oversimplify the job of whoever got a singer like Al Jolson on the label, then found a song like “Mammy” for him to perform.</p>
<p>The term A&R has lasted, but now it means much more. It means producers who sit in booths and enhance recordings, but it also means producers who just can hear a voice and say “That group’s for us. Let’s sign ‘em.”</p>
<p>Back to Warner Bros. Records in Manhattan, where its NY chief (over from Atlantic) now is Jerry Wexler. Wexler had left his home, Atlantic Records, to become WBR’s bird dog in the East. </p>
<p>Jerry is a producer, of course. But now he’s hired an assistant, one who’s a talent scout.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:11:13 +0000rhino2311 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: The Best Voicehttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-the-best-voice
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1981</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>He was and is something other than a singer, although he’d sung for decades before his arrival in Burbank.</p>
<p>“My music is the story of my life,” he told us. “It’s what I am.” His musical background began with singing at age four in his father’s Seventh Day Adventist church choir in Milwaukee. College, then at U of Iowa a Masters degree “Vocational Rehab” [he’d practice rehabbing his vocation throughout his singing career].</p>
<p>But Al preferred singing. Even if it meant little money in littler clubs. He did that for seven years until he was spotted by Warner Bros. Records. The Warner label was unaccustomed to jazz. But in Al Jarreau, they heard unprecedented and mighty skill in one man’s voice.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div></div></div>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:09:03 +0000rhino2271 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Maria Muldaur’s Many Jugshttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-maria-muldaur-s-many-jugs
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1973</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>Maria Muldaur has been a singer, out front of bands, for 50 years now, but her peak of fame came at Warner/Reprise in the 1970s, making records in her own name.</p>
<p>And in her own style: hot and sassy.</p>
<p>She’d started singing in junior high. “I had an all-Puerto Rican-girl rock and roll band called The Cashmeres. We wore tight white sweaters and tight black skirts and sang at all the dances.I had written like 18 rock and roll tunes, and we actually went around to the Brill Building, singing them in different offices. We were set to do some backup sessions for Jerry Butler’s group The Impressions, but my mother wouldn’t give me the permission. Therein ended my promising rock & roll career.” </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div></div></div>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 01:21:21 +0000rhino2221 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Best of The Doobieshttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-best-of-the-doobies
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1971-1980</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>After ten years – from the forming of the Doobie Brothers to the splitting up of that group – its members changed and changed, but its sound grew and grew.</p>
<p>But of the six Doobie Brothers’ members on year of birth (1972), ten years later, not a one remained in the group. It was all different guys.</p>
<p>Tracking all those changes has been done by others, and is not what this post is about. This one’s about tracking how the Doobies’ sound remained steady, passionate, attracting the masses, and not about some soloist’s voice.</p>
<p>For Warner Bros. Records, the Doobie Brothers made hit after hit, no matter who was at the mike. It started with these four.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div></div></div>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:19:11 +0000rhino2176 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Emmylou Harmonieshttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-emmylou-harmonies
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1981</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>She was 34 years old and famous-to-the-ear-and-eye when Emmylou Harris helped create a Trio. She’d often paired up with other artists since she began her vocal career at Reprise Records in 1975. But this Trio took many breaths away.</p>
<p>Emmylou Harris liked to sing ensemble, and trio-ing up with two other stars, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, to sing as a group, that sounded original. It still does.</p>
<p><center><h4><strong>Harmonizing, but Not Yet in Trio</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>The three golden voices had been combined in earlier recordings, but never commercially. First of all, they each recorded for different labels. No-no. Each was a valued star on her own, and labels can get tough about giving up profits. So any duets and the like, they’d be credited like “she and accompanied by.” </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div></div></div>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:36:02 +0000rhino2026 at http://www.rhino.comStay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: Playing with Little Feathttp://www.rhino.com/article/stay-tuned-by-stan-cornyn-playing-with-little-feat
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business.</strong></em></p>
<p><center><h4><strong>1971-1979</strong></h4></center></p>
<p>The hero of this short saga was named Lowell George.</p>
<p>During the 1970s, he struggled with his ever-changing band, a group who seemed always to have a different sound in mind than Lowell did.</p>
<p>Still, through it all until his early death, Lowell George made the records of a hero. Here’s how:</p>
<p>George had been a member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, and before that a band known as The Factory, and before that in a band known as The Fraternity of Man (one hit: “Don’t Bogart Me” in the movie <em>Easy Rider</em>).</p>
<p>But even Frank Zappa had not been a good Mother for Lowell and his guitar. Zappa asked him to leave the Mothers based on Lowell’s writing the song “Willin’,” which Zappa believed to be about dope.</p>
<p>Still and all, Zappa willingly recommended signing Lowell George to Warner Bros. Records. And the label heard in Lowell that “music hero,” too. He was signed. With his band. Long term.</p>
<p>In late summer, 1970, Lowell George’s new band recorded its first album. He’d named the band Little Feat, based on drummer Jimmy Black’s observation of Lowell’s feet, which he noticed were “little.” Not a major background story there, but it’s true.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stan-cornyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stan Cornyn</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/stay-tuned" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Stay Tuned</a></div></div></div>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 03:05:58 +0000rhino1951 at http://www.rhino.com